Sebastian has been working as CTO and recently as CEO in various technology start-ups, German Edge Cloud is the latest and his 6th as co-founder. He has launched the new ventures mainly in the fields of Cloud and Edge Computing and recently in AI for Manufacturing. Besides German Edge Cloud, the start-ups included iNNOVO Cloud, a pure play cloud provider for critical infrastructure, Xchanging Ltd, a London ITO/BPO unicorn, Activator, a cloud based realtime multicast SW and first-e, YTL YES, a Malaysian school cloud provider and firste-e, the first pan-European online broker at his time.

Sebastian presents how to apply the advantages of cloud based edge computing in manufacturing and intorduces the concept of an augmented virtual factory.